Potted Crab

Name: Potted Crab
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 250 g unsalted butter; 450 g pre-cooked mixed white and brown crabmeat; 1 pinch each of cayenne pepper, ground mace and freshly grated nutmeg; 1 pinch each of cayenne pepper, ground mace and freshly grated nutmeg; juice of 1 lemon; 1 scant pinch of freshly ground white pepper; salt; 450 g pre-cooked mixed white and brown crabmeat; 1 pinch each of cayenne pepper, ground mace and freshly grated nutmeg; 2 tsp chopped fresh curly parsley; 1 tsp each of chopped fresh chervil and chives; 1 tsp each of chopped fresh chervil and chives

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooks Country

By Matt Tebbutt

Published 2008

About

A variation on this dish, which I like just as well, is to add a little fresh chopped chilli and fresh coriander, and to substitute lime for the lemon.

Ingredients

250 g unsalted butter
450 g pre-cooked mixed white and brown crabmeat

Europe
United Kingdom
Fish course
Pescatarian
August
Summer
July
Gluten-free

Method

Clarify the butter by warming gently in a saucepan on the side of a stove until the milk solids separate from the fat. Strain through a muslin and reserve just the molten butter.

Pick through the crabmeat, discarding any bone or shell. Season with salt, pepper, the lemon juice and soft herbs. Pack the crabmeat mix into 1 large or 4 small pots.

Stir the ground spices through the